Even if you could trust the leadership of the APS, why would you?

APS' annual budget is well over a billion dollars.

Every audit that has ever been done, on the leadership of the
APS, has revealed significant standards and accountability
issues. Every audit has pointed to a lack of standards and to
a lack of accountability to the standards there were.

The Meyners audit of the APS Financial Division,
the stewards of that billion dollars,
revealed that after a century of "fine tuning", they still were;

• without adequate policies and procedures, and
• without adequate accountability to such policies as there were, and
• without records accurate enough to send anyone to prison.

There are likely millions of dollars that have been wasted
through the incompetence and corruption that are enabled
by a standards and accountability vacuum.

It would cost somewhere around $100,000 to have an
independent auditor come into the administration of the APS.
The auditor would look for standards and accountability enough
to protect the public interests and more than a billion tax dollars
a year.

There is a bond issue election coming up. Voters will be asked
to trust the leadership of the APS with another $600M.
While at the same time, the leadership of the APS is busy
hiding the fact that they refuse to allow an impartial audit.
They refuse to explain, defend, deny, or even acknowledge
their decision not to protect the public interests by means
of an independent audit that reports to the public record.

That refusal is all the proof you need, not to trust them.
What more proof could you possibly need?

If it would help to pass the bond issue, they would be buying
full page ads in the Journal, pointing to a "clean audit" of the
administration of the APS.

There is only one reason to hide the truth.

The audit will not come back clean, and that is why it will
never be done.

Paula Maes stated on the record,
that she would never agree to
any audit that named the names
of the corrupt and the incompetent
in the leadership of the APS. link







Why in the world, would voters trust her and her cronies with
another $600,000,000?

If the bond issue passes, it will only be because,
the Albuquerque Journal continues its betrayal of the public
trust by refusing to investigate and report upon the ethics
and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.




photo Mark Bralley